List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2053

A fusor is a term proposed to the IAU by Gibor Basri Professor of Astronomy at the University of California Berkeley to help clarify the nomenclature of celestial bodies. Under […]

HD 128311 or HN Boötis is an orange main-sequence star located approximately 54 light-years away in the constellation of Boötes. Two extrasolar planet candidates have been detected in orbit around […]

Gliese 667 (142 G. Scorpii) is a triple-star system in the constellation of Scorpius all of whose components have masses smaller than the Sun. The system lies at a distance […]

1866 Sisyphus (/ˈsɪsɨfəs/ SIS-i-fəs) is a binary Apollo asteroid which at approximately 9 km in diameter is the largest of the Earth-crossing asteroids.

Gamma Delphini (γ Del γ Delphini) is a binary star system approximately 101 light-years away in the constellation of Delphinus. The star marks one corner of the asterism Job’s Coffin. […]

HD 202206 is a yellow dwarf star approximately 148 light-years away in the constellation Capricornus. The star is orbited by a brown dwarf and a planetary companion in a 5:1 […]

3487 Edgeworth (1978 UF) is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on October 28 1978 by H. L. Giclas at Flagstaff.

Following is a list of stellar angular diameters. In astronomy the sizes of stars are often given in terms of their angular diameter as seen from Earth rather than their […]

NGC 1532 is an edge-on barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus.